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17.12.2019 (780 Clicks)

Australia expects big Benefits from new Positioning System

Geoscience Australia has been trialling its Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) for the last 18 months. EY has published a report claiming that the tech could be worth A$6bn to the Australian economy if deployed across Australia and New Zealand, promising benefits for the resource sector.

17.12.2019 (805 Clicks)

Bechtel Enka to build Serbia’s first 5G-ready digital Motorway and Key Flood Defense System

Morava motorway will create 10,000 jobs and enhance long-term economic growth in central Serbia

17.12.2019 (817 Clicks)

Australia invests A$27m in Mining Education and Research

The Australian government has announced A$12.5m in funding, from government reserves and industry organisations, to support a training centre at the University of Adelaide to educate miners and engineers in emerging technologies.

 

GlobalData mining writer JP Casey speaks to Peter Dowd, professor of mining engineering at the university's School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering about the funding, and how artificial intelligence and automation could impact the sector.
Casey says: "With artificial intelligence and automation technologies ever more in the press as the future of industry, it is perhaps easy to assume that adoption is a mere step away. However, while such technologies may offer numerous advantages to mining, those in the industry are not necessarily aware of these advantages or how to incorporate them into their systems and processes. The University of Adelaide's new mining research is setting out to change that, ensuring that the sector is properly prepared for emerging technologies and how they could change the future of mining."

Peter Dowd tells GlobalData: "The training centre will deliver the enabling tools – advanced sensors, data analytics and artificial intelligence – for automated, integrated and optimised mining. Automating a mine requires all stages of the mining and processing system to be integrated so that intelligence across the value chain can be automatically generated, delivered and exploited.
"The mining industry must be able to make real-time decisions if it is to apply the correct and most cost-effective parameters, or processes, at any point in the value chain and avoid the use of costly processes when they are not needed. Ubiquitous sensors, data analytics and artificial intelligence will bring step-change increases in productivity, based on network connectivity and high-speed computation in the Industrial Internet of Things.

"The unique opportunity that Australia has is to master the Industrial Internet of Things in an industry – mining – in which it has the competitive advantages of the value and complexity of its mineral resources and of the high-level capability embedded in its mining equipment, technology and services and in its resource companies.

"The training centre will operate over the period 2020–2023. We expect significant benefits to be realised throughout the period and thereafter as the research delivers against each of the objectives and the translation partners develop the outcomes into industry-ready products and, in appropriate cases, commercialise outcomes. The use of embedded and connected sensors together with real-time analysis of sensed data can [also] be applied to safety, environmental monitoring and control and many other areas in mining operations. "There is another complementary project, Unlocking Complex Resources through Lean Processing, which started last year. This is a research consortium funded by the State of South Australia through the Premier's Research and Industry Fund (PRIF) Research Consortia Programme for the period 2018–2021. The total project award is A$4m from PRIF, A$6.14m from industry, [and] A$4.46m from university partners."

Source: GlobalData

                     

16.12.2019 (1074 Clicks)

Hochtief Joint Venture to deliver London Power Tunnels Project

A Hochtief joint venture has been awarded with a GBP 400 million contract to deliver the second phase of the London Power Tunnels (LPT2) project.  

13.12.2019 (1141 Clicks)

Cronimet Holding GmbH appointed new CEO Europe

• Mr. Marijo Zeljko is responsible for the overall management of all European locations
• In addition, he will remain Managing Director of Cronimet Ferroleg. GmbH

13.12.2019 (772 Clicks)

Fugro wins nearshore Site Characterisation Contract for Copenhagen Megaproject

Danish consulting firm Cowi has awarded Fugro a nearshore geotechnical site investigation for CPH City & Port Development’s Lynetteholmen megaproject in Copenhagen.

13.12.2019 (961 Clicks)

Boliden appointed General Managers

Peter Bergman has been appointed as General Manager for The Boliden Area. For the last two years, Peter has been General Manager in Kevitsa and before that he worked as Mine Manager in Kankberg, Maurliden and acting General Manager at Aitik.

13.12.2019 (13 Clicks)

Beumer Group zählt zu umsatzstärksten Familienunternehmen in Deutschland: Motor der deutschen Wirtschaft

Familienunternehmen sind Motor und Stablilitätsanker der deutschen Wirtschaft in einem. Doch wer zählt in Deutschland zu den größten unter ihnen? Das multimediale Wirtschaftsmedium Die Deutsche Wirtschaft (DDW) hat dies zum Jahresabschluss ermittelt und ein Ranking veröffentlicht. Die Beumer Group gehört zu den Firmen, die ihre Position im Vergleich zum Vorjahr sogar noch verbessern konnten – um 84 Plätze. Der Systemanbieter gehört damit zu den Ranggewinnern.

12.12.2019 (974 Clicks)

Glencore to join The Responsible Sourcing Blockchain Network

Glencore PLC (Glencore), one of the world’s largest industrial cobalt producers, announces that it is to join the Responsible Sourcing Blockchain Network (RSBN). RSBN is an industry collaboration utilising blockchain technology to support responsible sourcing and production practices from mine to market. With members spanning downstream auto brands, refiners and miners, the network’s blockchain has moved beyond proof of concept and is on track to become commercially operational by spring 2020.

11.12.2019 (743 Clicks)

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall welcome higher Ambitions to reach Climate Targets

HYBRIT's owners SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall welcome the higher ambitions to reach climate targets discussed at the COP25 climate summit in Madrid. The companies cite the need for powerful measures to secure industrial transition. The HYBRIT initiative for fossil-free steel production shows that zero net emissions is possible.